Comments on: SpiderOak Versus Dropbox

By: Darius

Darius — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:10:53 +0000

When it comes to security, SpiderOak wins hands down. Although I have used other cloud services in the past (Dropbox, Mozy, Box.net, etc.), I have switched to SpiderOak and have no regrets.

By: Ezekiel

Ezekiel — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:01:30 +0000

Great post on the detailed features. I think I’ll try the less popular (based on Alexa, WOT, and other indicators) but seemingly competitive SpiderOak for file backups and syncing. Maybe even sharing but I think I’ll stick to Dropbox for that one unless SpiderOaks improves on it.

It’s good someone raised the point on shared folders.

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:15:11 +0000

I have been using Dropbox a little more and with symbolic links it is pretty handy. No need to copy data to the Dropbox folder, just make a symbolic link. Works great, even in Windows 7. Not something your average computer user does though. The clients I work with that have SpiderOak really only use it for backup and it works well for them. Thanks for dropping by and commenting, really appreciate it.

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:40:43 +0000

SpiderOak is a great product but Dropbox is A LOT better syncing files, the Dropbox folder is limited but it work PERFECT, in my case 0 BUGS. SpiderOak is great as a backup tool, it save a lot of space with compression and de-duplicating but sync is very buggy and slow for now…. i hope the team can solve all current problems.

BTW, I,m a paid SpiderOak (mac and pc) user and use a free Dropbox also.

By: John

John — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:13:26 +0000

Yes you can share files with SpiderOak, but it is not the same as how Dropbox can share a folder with another Dropbox user that soso was talking about. With Dropbox it is possible to share a folder with another Dropbox user and they can add, edit and make changes to those documents and the changes are synced across all the users that have access to that shared folder.

Here is the Dropbox docs on it: https://www.dropbox.com/help/category/Sharing

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:41:59 +0000

Oh really? Then what is this? https://spideroak.com/howitworks/Share

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:22:09 +0000

You are correct, that is a great feature of Dropbox that I could not find in SpiderOak.

By: soso

soso — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:42:40 +0000

SpiderOak is quite inviting in many respects. Unfortunately there is a severe disadvantage of SpiderOak: In contrast to Dropbox it seems impossible to invite others to work together on a shared folder. That’s a great pity.